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Ok well since this is a thread where you can post anything cricket related I just thought that I would mention that Clyde Walcott died. One of the greats for West Indies cricket has passed on. His contribution will always be remembered. So now another one of  "The Three W's for West Indies cricket" has departed. Only Weekes remains.

I now realised there was a thread about this on International News. I apologise.

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Shane Warne suggests at a Post ashes retirement if he has another stellar series as he would love to go out on a high note....

Also, Gilly expects that more senior Aust. players will be rested in the future from smaller tournaments such as he has done with Aust. tour in malaysia. Isn't this a warning to the ICC that if players are having to miss tournaments that they are playing waaaaaay to much cricket??

Muralitharan bowls Leg-Spin with uncontreversial action and hes good at it to.

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Originally posted by AK How come Sri Lanka dont get to play 4-5 test match series like I all the other test nations apart from Zimbabwe & Bangladesh?

I guess it has something to do with money. I think which ever side gives the ICC more money plays the most matches in A series. I think I've heard that story sometime ago when a cricket match was playing but still I am not sure or it may be due to the fact Sri lanka unlike SA , ENG , WI , PAK , IND , AUS aren't all that competitive in test cricket.

I think the same goes for NZ to. I don't think they have played any 4 or 5 match series as far as I've been watching cricket.

Maybe one of the older chaps on the forum knows something about it.

 

Originally posted by ANIL KUMBLE How come Sri Lanka dont get to play 4-5 test match series like I all the other test nations apart from Zimbabwe & Bangladesh?

At home their crowds for test matches are poor - they still prefer one day cricket. Because of that it's not financially advantageous to play 5 tests so they play a hundred one dayers instead!

England play 5 tests (even 6 back in the 80's) against Australia because the demand is massive - it's still the biggest test series around the world. They also play 5 against SA and used to against WI , that's gone down to 3 or 4 now because of the Windies demise.

England have yet to play 5 test series against any of India , Pakistan or NZ , the first two still mad keen to keep the one day quota high.

Time plays it's part too. England played 3 tests against SL earlier this year and then 4 tests against Pakistan. They started in early May (the earliest that a test has EVER started in England) , they'd have had to start in the snow if they wanted another test!

That sounds like a load of crap,people probably won't even exist in 350 years time with global warming around.

The day's most bizarre story -

Water bomb stops play at Blackpool

Cricinfo staff

August 30, 2006

Cricket has always fallen victim to rain and inclement weather. But rarely, if ever, has a water bomb stopped play. In Lancashire's match against Warwickshire, at Stanley Park in Blackpool, Iain Sutcliffe was motoring towards his hundred when the water bomb - catapulted from the park outside the ground - sailed over long-on and landed on a length.

A journalist covering the game wandered over to get a burger and chips shortly afterwards and asked the lady serving "Have you heard anything about a water bomb?"

"No," she replied. "I know nothing about cricket."

Water became more of an issue for Lancashire later in the day as rain forced them off the pitch, with Sutcliffe unbeaten on 117

Would people be in favour of an ongoing thread in the Fun & Games section where we can post favourite quotes that we come across in the forum? This would help when voting for Best Quote in next year's awards!

that's what I found as well. This thread could be like a hall of fame for the greatest one liners ever!

will do

I have to say well done clobs. One of the best ideas ever in the fun and games sections.

Clobs does it again - well done mate!

Chris Adams is currently being questionned by the police 

Guyana are the WI U - 19 challenge champions. They won the game on first innings points.

Bar 213 all out & 149/4 , Guy 349 all out. Congrats to them but I can't remember who won the championship but I think its guyana as well but if its not them its barbados.

ODI series are pretty unimportant at all times in my book